Printer lost on Network

We have an HP LaserJet 1160 setup on the network as a cheque printer. After a planned power outage at the weekend I cant access the printer again. All I can assume is that on the reboot the printer assigned itself a new IP.

The port is pointing at 10.1.3.103 and this has always worked. Pinging that brings no replies.

I have done a ping of 10.1.3.255 followed by a arp -a command to bring up all the internal IP devices and 103 is not in the list.

if i run Advanced IP Scanner from Radmin, it does pick up a device called HP001B786723DA on IP 10.1.3.101 which has no webconfig page and I wonder if this might be it, but if I change the port to this and do a test print the print goes into the queue and after a minute says deleting and removes itself.

ok, the issue became evident when getting on site! The DLink parallel to ethernet print server was dead. Have done a temp workaround using usb to the server and sharing until we get a new converter. not

@ Julian_brunt - sadly i'm off site at the mo! I think this printer is using a hp jetdirect module which probably makes it more confusing! It's plugged into a little 5 port switch . .how can i get the address from that?

@ IanTh - checking the online manual for 1160 it says there is no network config page for it. Will try a config page as test page only shows sales junk! I am not sure how to change it to a static address for this printer as there is no webconfig for it!

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press and hold the go button for about 5 sec to get the config page on the printer this should give you its current ip address and mac. You can create a reservation in DHCP with the mac so it doesn't change or you can put a static in the printer.

ok, the issue became evident when getting on site! The DLink parallel to ethernet print server was dead. Have done a temp workaround using usb to the server and sharing until we get a new converter. not sure why the IP was still pinging though . .

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